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Journalist, Enrico Woolford on Saturday refused to apologise or compensate Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat for a Facebook post last week that he was allegedly escorted off a plane at JFK International Airport and questioned by federal agents. “There will be no retraction, apology or compensatory damages or payments of legal fees as requested, to your client or any ...

The Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) would be investigating alleged financial improprieties by Assistant Police Commissioner (ag), Calvin Brutus, amid allegations that he deposited GY$16.5 million into his Guyana Police Credit Union account, a senior government official said Friday night. The source said Mr Brutus, who had been performing the functions of a Deputy Police Commissioner, would ...

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Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday refused to say who would be investigating alleged financial improprieties by head of Special Branch and Deputy Police Commissioner (ag) Calvin Brutus, but the Alliance for Change (AFC) recommended that Caribbean police be called in to do the job. “You will be advised when we do a release,” said Mr Benn when asked ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday said the Guyana government was cautious about seizing firearms in the possession of Mohamed’s Enterprise whose foreign exchange and gold dealers operations have been already effectively shut down due to United States Treasury Department sanctions. Usually, Mohamed’s Enterprise on Lombard Street was secured by guards armed with rifles, but the Home Affairs Minister ...

Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat on Friday dismissed a claim that he was escorted off a plane on arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport and questioned by United States (US) federal agents, instead saying the airline arranged for courtesies to be extended to him. “No, it was courtesies being extended to expedite clearing. I was not detained ...

Just days after Deputy Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus was reassigned from administration to Head of Special Branch, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday afternoon that he has gone on leave to allow a probe into alleged financial misdeeds. Mr Brutus allegedly deposited GY$16.5 million into his Police Credit Union account on December 15, 2023. The money was returned to him ...

One day after Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken denied that a high-ranking police officer ever deposited tens of millions of dollars into a Guyana Police Credit Union account, fresh information has surfaced showing that the money was deposited and returned to that officer. The officer, Deputy Police Commisioner Calvin Brutus, on Wednesday opted to remain silent when he was questioned ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) Academy f0r Law to run specialised continuing education programmes on emerging areas as well as train prosecutors. He issued the call in his address to the opening of the two-day first Legal Conference on Criminal Justice Reform – Advancing the Needham’s Point Declaration. “That academy in my humble opinion ...

Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken on Wednesday dismissed social media posts that a senior police officer attempted to deposit GY$16.5 million into the Guyana Police Cooperative Credit Union. “No it’s not true and I made a release already,” Mr Hicken told Demerara Waves Online News. While he insisted that such a release was made and “it’s in the system” there ...